CHAPTER 770: CHAPTER 768: NOT A TRACE OF A SENSE OF HUMOR (SECOND UPDATE)

Xie Xuzhi slightly frowned. If he remembered correctly, the checkpoints should be set up on all the main roads in and out of the Five Emperors Mountain.

"Are you saying this truck is about to leave the Five Emperors Mountain?"

Xie Xuzhi was quite impressive, even adept at locating by sound, but being trapped in this narrow space,

with the winding mountain road from the back hill, he really couldn’t tell the direction anymore.

But Yun Ran was different. She might not be able to accurately know every place they passed, but she could grasp the general direction.

Hearing the disbelief in Xie Xuzhi’s tone, Yun Ran nodded slightly.

Of course, in such a pitch-black space, Xie Xuzhi didn’t see it.

"That’s right, this truck seems to be leaving the position of the Five Emperors Mountain. Our previous guess might be a bit off."

Previously, Yun Ran and Xie Xuzhi guessed that the so-called main altar of the Black Robed People was likely in some undeveloped part of the Five Emperors Mountain.

The place is rarely visited, and outsiders cannot find it unless led by someone.

But now, it seems they are about to be taken away from the Five Emperors Mountain.

Xie Xuzhi also felt a bit surprised, but didn’t consider it anything unacceptable.

Their main purpose of acting as bait was to lure out the people behind the Five Emperors Mountain.

Whether they are in the Five Emperors Mountain or another place, it’s not that important.

Xie Xuzhi was still thinking about how to adjust the previous setup.

Then he heard Yun Ran’s tone carry some schadenfreude: "If you, as the boss, didn’t get discovered right under the noses of your subordinates, wouldn’t that be embarrassing?"

Xie Xuzhi: ...

Whether the Special Administration Bureau is embarrassed or if he has face is one matter, but he could hear Yun Ran was clearly not worried about the situation at all.

"That depends on whether you want to be discovered or not."

As long as Yun Ran wanted to leave, even if the Black Robed People were fully prepared, getting out would be easy.

But if they wanted to continue their previous plan, even if the Special Administration Bureau people found them, Yun Ran would find a way to muddle through it.

These words from Xie Xuzhi suddenly took away Yun Ran’s mood of wanting to see the hustle and bustle.

"Hey, you really are boring. Hasn’t anyone told you that you have no sense of humor?"

Xie Xuzhi seriously thought for a moment before answering Yun Ran: "No, because no one jokes like that in front of me."

People without enough status don’t dare to joke.

Those with enough status are often decades old, and when they are with him, they always talk about serious matters. There’s no time for such trivialities.

Yun Ran: ...

She refused to talk to such a stiff and boring person!

People who usually inspected the small trucks coming down the Five Emperors Mountain didn’t bother to check.

But now, with the new orders from above, they had to inspect each and every vehicle.

The inspectors even held magic artifacts specifically designed to detect living things — anything that could breathe could be detected.

Yun Ran listened to the approaching footsteps getting closer and closer to their truck.

She immediately forgot the flag she had just set and moved closer to Xie Xuzhi, softly whispering: "I bet they won’t find us!"

With such a boring bet, if it were someone else, Xie Xuzhi would have rolled his eyes and told them to go find something to do.

But since the one asking was Yun Ran, Xie Xuzhi hesitated for less than half a second before deciding to join in.

"I also bet they won’t find us."

The one who hadn’t spoken, Ginsengfruit, remarked helplessly: "If you’re betting the same thing, how is this any different from not betting?"

Xie Xuzhi didn’t mind Ginsengfruit’s comment.

Laughing lightly, he said: "For so many years, the Black Robed People have always managed to stay hidden well, so surely they have a way to escape detection.

Maybe they even have a specific way to counteract the magic artifacts used by the Special Administration Bureau to detect them?"

Xie Xuzhi’s tone sounded casual, but in reality, he was quite certain about it.

Knowing all this, Xie Xuzhi was no longer as angry as before.

He was more puzzled; if the Black Robed People had so many hidden abilities and networking resources, why insist on this risky path?

With such persistence in causing trouble for hundreds of years, couldn’t they succeed in something else?

Being so stubborn, they’ve ended up narrowing their own path.

Indeed, it turned out as Yun Ran and Xie Xuzhi had guessed.

The Special Administration Bureau people completed their inspection; Yun Ran and the others could even hear them knocking on the truck’s body.

The sound was so close to Yun Ran and them that it felt like just a little more carefulness from the inspectors would have revealed their presence.

But in the end, the inspectors found nothing, and the sound of their departing footsteps grew more distant.

The truck restarted its journey.

They won the bet~

Yet Xie Xuzhi did not feel the slightest joy; he was already planning in his mind from where he could draw some funds.

He wanted to replace and update all the commonly used inspection equipment of the Special Administration Bureau, and at the same time, everyone needed to undergo retraining.

For the next few months, some people in the Special Administration Bureau would be completely unaware of what got into their Director Xie that made them shed a few layers of skin through rigorous training.

Yun Ran yawned; without having slept well at night, she was truly a bit sleepy now.

"I’m going to sleep for a bit. Call me when the truck stops!"

With that, Yun Ran directly used Erdan as a pillow, with Ginsengfruit taking over the task of fanning her with a feather fan.

As the sun rose, the temperature inside the truck quickly shot up as it drove along the road.

Yun Ran soon fell asleep.

Being able to fall asleep in such a harsh environment made Xie Xuzhi quite admire Yun Ran.

No one knew how much time passed, but the smooth road suddenly became bumpy, shaking several times, causing Yun Ran to wake up a bit grumpily.

"What’s going on?"

Unable to see outside, Xie Xuzhi could only ask Yun Ran and Ginsengfruit.

Previously, he never thought missing out on learning Xuan Sect techniques mattered, but now, Xie Xuzhi was suddenly a little regretful that he hadn’t been curious enough to question it in his youth.

If only he knew a bit of the Xuan Sect methods — not to become a master, just enough to get the basics.

Yun Ran glanced casually, her face immediately revealing an expression of helplessness.

"We’re traveling on one of the old roads. Not many vehicles used it in the first place, so its maintenance is much worse, with lots of potholes.

The Black Robed People really aren’t great, are they? How much would it cost to use the highway? In an attempt to save such trivial expenses, they chose this old road, which is totally insane!"

Sitting in the driver’s cabin of the truck may not have much impact.

But for those of them locked inside the base of the vehicle, it was a huge suffering.

If someone with a weaker constitution were to be jolted like this a few times, their life could be at risk!